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Read More »You say you want a revolution?
Is the industry really prepared for digital distribution?
Read More »EBS Benelux snaps up Favour Games
European distributor EBS Benelux has acquired independent rival Favour Games. The takeover comes as EBS moves to strengthen its position as a distributor of home and portable entertainment products in the Benelux region. We are very excited and proud to welcome Favour Games into the EBS family,” said EBS Benelux …
Read More »Miyamoto questions digital distribution
Nintendo’s boss of development and games industry legend Shigeru Miyamoto has questioned the belief that a digital-only future for games retail is inevitable. The thing for us is we really don’t see the future of video games being merely confined to digital distribution or moving solely or even to a …
Read More »Dev slams lack of digital transparency
UK-based indie dev Doublesix has launched criticisms against the widespread secrecy surrounding digital sales data, claiming that the the lack of transparency” is ultimately hurting the industry. Doublesix studio head James Brooksby said that he wants platform owners to make digital sales data public, saying that concealment of such information …
Read More »Becoming a self-publishing Icon
Why UK dev Icon Games is moving to self-publishing
Read More »Digital distributions biggest week?
It’s time to dispel the notion that the rise to prominence of digital distribution is still several years off – a rare set of concrete sales numbers for EA’s recently released WWII shooter Battlefield 1943 show that digital retail is already here in a very big way. DICE’s title, which …
Read More »The best things in life are free
How much is giving away content worth?
Read More »PC downloads worth $1bn in 2009
The value of the PC digital distribution will comfortably sail past the $1bn barrier this year. According to Dorian Bloch, the business group director of GfK-ChartTrack – who was speaking on a panel discussion at this week’s Develop conference in Brighton – 2009 sales of games through the likes of …
Read More »Perry predicts death of physical media
Physical media is at the sunset of its lifespan. Eventually, all games will be based online. That was the view of industry veteran, and Gaikai founder, David Perry. Perry was speaking at an opening keynote at the fourth annual Develop Conference in Brighton, UK. In an address entitled Embracing the …
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